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BITCOIN CIRCULATING SUPPLY

How much Bitcoin exists?

How many coins have been made, how many are still to come, and how slowly the rest arrives.

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Bitcoin made so far, by date chartmaketomaketo.com/bitcoin/supply05.00M10.00M15.00M20.00M200920122015201820212024Aug 30, 202620.08M

Bitcoin made so far, against the 21 million ceiling. Every coin made since 2009, running under a ceiling it never reaches. The curve bends because the payment per block halves every four years, so each stretch adds half of what the one before it did.

Latest displayed reading: 20,076,813.63 on Aug 30, 2026. This view shows 6,443 dated readings from Jan 9, 2009 to Aug 30, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is 700 on Jan 9, 2009. The displayed high is 20,076,813.63 on Aug 30, 2026. Every day in this range has a reading.

Pick two to four dates and read this chart's values side by side.

  1. How much Bitcoin exists right now?

    20,076,814
    coins made so far
    95.60%
    of the 21 million ceiling
    923,186
    still to come under the schedule

    Almost all of the Bitcoin that will ever exist already does. What is left arrives slowly, and most of the remaining years add almost nothing. Those coins sit in 165,767,420 separate pieces, averaging 0.121 of a coin each. One wallet is usually several pieces, and one person is usually several wallets, so this is not a count of owners.

  2. How much new Bitcoin is made each day?

    506.3
    made in the day ending Aug 30, 2026
    450
    at the pace the schedule intends
    162
    blocks found that day

    Whoever produces a block is paid 3.125 brand new coins. That works out at 450 a day when blocks arrive on schedule, but the real count wobbles, and that day ran fast.

    Miners also collected 2.26 coins in fees over the same day, and those are not new. Fees are coins that already existed, moving from a sender to a miner. Only the block payment adds to the total.

  3. How fast is the pile still growing?

    0.82% a year

    Over the year ending Aug 30, 2026, the amount of Bitcoin grew by 0.82%.

    That number only ever falls. It was over 25% a year in 2012, and it halves again at every halving.

  4. When does Bitcoin reach its limit?

    96%
    83,186 coins away, about 0.5 years
    99%
    713,186 coins away, about 8.5 years
    99.9%
    902,186 coins away, about 21.5 years

    It never actually gets there. The block payment halves as a whole number of the smallest unit Bitcoin can count, so it eventually rounds down to nothing and the schedule stops at 20,999,999.9769 coins, about 0.0231 of a coin short of 21 million. Twenty one million is the ceiling, not the destination.

    A further 130.12coins were made but can never move again, starting with the 50 in Bitcoin's very first block, which the original software left out of the ledger. That is a rule of the software, and it is a different thing from the millions of coins that have simply not moved in years, which is a read on how people behave.

  5. What does this mean for you?

    The supply side of Bitcoin is close to finished. Almost all of it already exists, the flow of new coins is under one percent a year, and it only falls from here. Whatever moves the price next, it will not be a change in how fast coins are made. That part was fixed in 2009, published years in advance, and is running on schedule.

Understanding Bitcoin's Circulating Supply

Where it stands today

Bitcoin's Circulating Supply is 20.08M coins made of 21 million as of .

Bitcoin's supply is not a policy, it is a schedule. Every ten minutes or so a new block of transactions is added to the ledger, and whoever produces it is paid a fixed number of brand new coins. That payment halves every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years. Nobody votes on it, and nobody can change it without the agreement of everyone running the software, which is why the number of coins that will ever exist has been known since 2009.

Circulating supply means the coins that have actually been made, as opposed to the 21 million ceiling the schedule aims at. It never quite gets there. The block payment halves as a whole number of the smallest unit Bitcoin can count, so it eventually rounds down to nothing, and the schedule tops out a fraction of a coin short of 21 million. The real figure is a shade lower still, because a handful of miners claimed less than their block allowed and those coins were never made at all.

The rate of new coins is called issuance, and measured against the pile that already exists it is the supply growth rate. It has fallen from over 25% a year in 2012 to under one percent, and it can only ever fall further. That fall is the whole design. Bitcoin pays a lot early, when the network is worth almost nothing and needs defending anyway, then tapers to a trickle once it can stand on its own.

Three numbers get confused with each other, and this page keeps them apart. How much has been made is a hard count from the chain. How much can never move again is also provable, because the rules themselves put those coins out of reach. How much has simply not moved in ten years is neither, it is a reading of how people behave, and the chain cannot tell a lost wallet from a patient one. Some sites subtract those coins and publish a smaller number they call the real supply. It looks like a hard count and it is really a guess, so we do not publish one.